In this episode Stewart McGill is joined by Stephanie Martin from the Communist Party of Britain in Glasgow. They discuss what Johnson’s Levelling Up agenda really means, and the Communist Party’s radical alternatives offering real local, regional and national democracy coupled with greater economic equality.
Additional Information
- Relative Economic Performance: ‘from 1949 to 1980, the years of high marginal taxes on the big income earners, strong trade unions, nationalised industries at the heart of the economy, exchange controls, a regulated financial sector, decent public services, free university education, growing equality, UK economic growth averaged 3.09% year on year; from 1980 to 2019, the years of Thatcher, much reduced taxes on the wealthy, the ascendancy of an unfettered financial sector, liberalised trade, privatisation, declining public services, privatisation, free flows of capital, growing inequality, and the destruction of the trade union movement, UK economic growth averaged 2.15% year-on-year.’ You can read this report from the Communist Party here: The Political Economy of Taxation
- John Foster Pamphlet on Progressive Federalism: the pamphlet is available to purchase in the shop: Johnson’s post-EU Britain or progressive federalism
- The UK Finance Curse, report from Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute: the report can be found linked on this page: Costing the country: Britain’s finance curse
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